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Are Babies "The New Hip"?

Wendy MacNaughton seems to think so, but I'm not sold. Sure, just the other day I was lamenting getting stuck behind a lunch-time stroller procession down Valencia Street, but proximity to bike shops and Blondie's hardly makes something hip. Plus, anyone who channels Brian Wilson and puts a matching flaccid cotton condom atop their child's head should be smacked the fuck up.

But the reality is that first-wave cool kids can't suppress their parental instincts with pugs and alcohol addiction forever, so we might as well brace ourselves for people trying to convince us their regrettable decision is trendy.

I dunno you guys. There’s a hipster family in my building; dad with tattoos & a beard, mom in a Navajo Pendleton jacket & round sunglasses, baby swaddled in some cloth snugli thing … I see them walking down my block with matching Four Barrel cups and my heart melts.